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Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
Dag Hammarskjold
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Dag Hammarskjold
Age: 55 †
Born: 1905
Born: January 1
Died: 1961
Died: January 1
Diplomat
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Jönköpings stad
Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld
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We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.
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Unless there is a spiritual renaissance, the world will know no peace.
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You take the pen, and the lines dance. You take the flute and the notes shimmer. You take the brush, and the colors sing. So all things have meaning and beauty in that space beyond time where you are. How, then, can I hold back anything from you?
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The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.
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The concept of loyalty is distorted when it is understood to mean blind acceptance. It is correctly interpreted when it is assumed to cover honest criticism.
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The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.
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Acts of violence-- Whether on a large or a small scale, the bitter paradox: the meaningfulness of death--and the meaninglessness of killing.
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You dare your Yes - and experience a meaning...You repeat your Yes - and all things acquire a meaning...When everything has a meaning, how can you live anything but a YES.
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A task becomes a duty from the moment you suspect it to be an essential part of that integrity which alone entitles a man to assume responsibility.
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Respect for the word - to employ it with scrupulous care and in incorruptible heartfelt love of truth - is essential if there is to be any growth in a society or in the human race. To misuse the word is to show contempt for man. It undermines the bridges and poisons the wells. It causes Man to regress down the long path of his evolution.
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To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.
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Here man is no longer the center of the world, only a witness, but a witness who is also a partner in the silent life of Nature, bound by secret affinities of the trees.
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At some moment I did answer Yes to someone or something. And from that hour on I was certain that existence is meaningful.
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We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.
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To preserve the silence within--amid all the noise. To remain open and quiet, a moist humus in the fertile darkness where the rain falls and the grain ripens--no matter how many tramp across the parade ground in whirling dust under an arid sky.
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In the presence of God, nothing stands between Him and us - we are forgiven. But we cannot feel His presence if anything is allowed to stand between ourselves and others.
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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Life yields only to the conqueror.
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Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.
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'Freedom from fear' could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.
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